Show off your old and retro computer parts

[flibberdipper]

1 hour ago, TheV_Machine said:

calm down you kids, i have a 2x2gb kit of OCZ PC2 6400 Titanium Edition im my pc parts box as far as i know, they were the best you can get back when they were released

That's not really exciting.

[Dabombinable]

I put this in a status update last night from my Gigabyte GA 5AA (the only SS7 board that works with all socket 5/7/S7 CPU regardless of the BIOS version), and it actually does everything (including web browsing) better than a Celeron 450A. Should probably install a 512MB stick of RAM too (it takes them unlike the ATX version of the board-which also doesn't have the same CPU compatibility):

[8uhbbhu8]

18 hours ago, MEC-777 said:

 

Some up coming projects:

Ooooo I like those cases!

[Coaxialgamer]

I have a DEC rainbow 100A from 1983 ... It has an intel 8088 and a z80 inside .

Spoiler

left is mainboard , upper right is ram expansion , and lower right is probably some sort of Disk drive controller.

Oh , it also has a couple AMD IC's on it.

 

[TheV_Machine]

2 hours ago, tmcclelland455 said:

That's not really exciting.

!triggered! - be aware of my safe space you filthy heterosexual white western male

 

23 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

I put this in a status update last night from my Gigabyte GA 5AA (the only SS7 board that works with all socket 5/7/S7 CPU regardless of the BIOS version), and it actually does everything (including web browsing) better than a Celeron 450A. Should probably install a 512MB stick of RAM too (it takes them unlike the ATX version of the board-which also doesn't have the same CPU compatibility):

using windows me is far more out of place than any retro pc parts could ever be

[Dabombinable]

11 minutes ago, TheV_Machine said:

!triggered! - be aware of my safe space you filthy heterosexual white western male

 

using windows me is far more out of place than any retro pc parts could ever be

At least it works with up to 999MB of RAM, and starts up like its on an SSD.....and it it really just 98TE with added features+DOS mode restricted (hence the better stability if you don't use VXD drivers with WDM drivers).

[Dabombinable]

@TheV_Machine
Turns out that the "ESS AudioDrive ES186X Rev98" soundcard was causing the problems I had installing 98SE. It turns out that the salvaged 470uf replacement cap has died and I need to get a new one. I just hope that MagicBoy (which needs DOS mode) has sound with this rig, as under 98SE with a Creative Live Value from around 2000-2001 it didn't have any.

[flibberdipper]

2 hours ago, TheV_Machine said:

!triggered! - be aware of my safe space you filthy heterosexual white western male

Don't make me use my spare CPU's as throwing stars.

[Dabombinable]

Just now, tmcclelland455 said:

Don't make me use my spare CPU's as throwing stars.

Your don't have any of the first real Celerons

[flibberdipper]

31 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

Your don't have any of the first real Celerons

Yep. Never got a system that had one so I don't have any.

[Dabombinable]

24 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Yep. Never got a system that had one so I don't have any.

That explains all of those  LGA775 CPU then. I take it most are Pentium 4-because I'm always seeing the damn things in dead/old rigs.
 

[flibberdipper]

16 minutes ago, Dabombinable said:

That explains all of those  LGA775 CPU then. I take it most are Pentium 4-because I'm always seeing the damn things in dead/old rigs.
 

If I'm not mistaken, there's two or three P4s, a Pentium D, Celly D, a pair of low-power Cellys, and a Pentium E5200 in that mess.

[Dabombinable]

1 hour ago, tmcclelland455 said:

If I'm not mistaken, there's two or three P4s, a Pentium D, Celly D, a pair of low-power Cellys, and a Pentium E5200 in that mess.

Please. Take a hammer to the Celeron D. They ruin any computer they touch (they were and are horrendous-worse than the first cache-less Celerons)

[TheV_Machine]

7 hours ago, tmcclelland455 said:

Don't make me use my spare CPU's as throwing stars.

My two fully working chess "PC" 's, you shall be my shield

And my pair of E8400, you shall be my secret counter weapon

[ProjectBox153]

12 hours ago, tmcclelland455 said:

If I'm not mistaken, there's two or three P4s, a Pentium D, Celly D, a pair of low-power Cellys, and a Pentium E5200 in that mess.

No Core 2 Duos? I (surprisingly) don't have any 775 P4s. I want one though. 

[flibberdipper]

2 hours ago, Jamiec1130 said:

No Core 2 Duos? I (surprisingly) don't have any 775 P4s. I want one though. 

The only C2D's I have are the E7400 in my Plex machine and then the SP9400 in my old laptop that's used as a network bridge.

 

13 hours ago, Dabombinable said:

Please. Take a hammer to the Celeron D. They ruin any computer they touch (they were and are horrendous-worse than the first cache-less Celerons)

I'll never use it so I just keep it because why not. I'd be much more likely to use the ol' 540J (if I were to go with an older 775 chip of course).

[SierraKomodo]

I had to dust some of this off...

 

I've got a network card, a GT 440, GT 430, GTX 590, a playstation 2, a CRT monitor, and the gutted remains of an old desktop sitting upstairs. Imgur links because the total size of these images exceeded 20 MB

 

 



 



 



 



 

[MkaiL]

Here is the oldest pc hardware I have:

 

And this is from my first ever pc (I'm "only" 24):

[Nazka]

Funny one. I dismantled my old computer with parts from 2001 recently. May he rest in pieces.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dabombinable]

3 hours ago, tmcclelland455 said:

The only C2D's I have are the E7400 in my Plex machine and then the SP9400 in my old laptop that's used as a network bridge.

 

I'll never use it so I just keep it because why not. I'd be much more likely to use the ol' 540J (if I were to go with an older 775 chip of course).

I accidentally knocked a capacitor off the back of my 540j after I did my P4 Northwood-Cedarmill comparisons 
On the plus side, I found out that a P4 HT3.2GHz with DDR 333 matches a P4 540J and 631 with DDR2 800 and DDR2 1066 in performance. Despite having far fewer transistors and being on a far larger node (the power consumption was also very close between all 3)

[wnd]

On 9/4/2017 at 7:03 PM, PianoPlayer88Key said:

 

That pic reminds me ... I'd love to see someone try to cable manage an old (> 8-10 years old) typical case (lacking side panel space), with like 2-4 video cards, 6-8+ IDE drives (maybe a few MFM drives), etc, and make it look as clean as a modern decent case (with plenty of room for cable management) with a base-model GTX 1050 and an M.2 SSD.

 

Are these old enough?  They actually STILL work - well at least the 80GB sometimes does depending on which cable it's hooked up with and how it's hooked up

Yeah I remember those rounded IDE cables became to fashion some time before people moved to SATA. There used to be sleeved cables where the ribbon cable was just squished together, and cabels that had an actual round rubber covering the 80 individual wires. I had forgotten about those.  Anyways, I had some time and a spare Fractal Design R3 case, so I put the build into that and think it looks more interesting now, and a bit more cable managed even with the normal ribbon cables. I tried to also take a photo with some better light, because the previous one was so horribly taken with a flash, sorry. I wanted to keep both types of floppy drives and ran out of external bays so the smaller 1.44MB drive is now interestingly located in a HDD tray.. but sort of accessible if there is ever need to use it.

[never again]

=

[Coaxialgamer]

here's what's left of my pentium 3  866 i guess.. 

[Fournuts the Longbeard]

 So this is the retro computer I've managed to put together completely from nib parts, it's a pretty decent computer for around 2001 or 2002. It's running Windows 98se with the high ram patch. It would probably be more appropriate to run WinXP on it but I've never used a 9x os before and wanted to experiment with one and dos games, anyways here's the parts list.

 

Chenming 601ATX-AW which is the OEM version of the Antec SX-800 and you can still buy these new with pretty substantial shipping costs

MSI K7T266pro2 that's been recapped

Athlon XP 1700+ Palomino

512mb DDR266

Radeon 8500LE 128mb

Sound blaster live 5.1 Platinum

Maxtor 40gb boot disk

Seagate Baracuda IV 60gb for games

Antec easy USB

Creative labs 4224 CD burner

PC power and cooling silencer case fans

PC power and cooling Turbocool 300-ATX

[flibberdipper]

1 hour ago, Fournuts the Longbeard said:

 So this is the retro computer I've managed to put together completely from nib parts, it's a pretty decent computer for around 2001 or 2002. It's running Windows 98se with the high ram patch. It would probably be more appropriate to run WinXP on it but I've never used a 9x os before and wanted to experiment with one and dos games, anyways here's the parts list.

 

Chenming 601ATX-AW which is the OEM version of the Antec SX-800 and you can still buy these new with pretty substantial shipping costs

MSI K7T266pro2 that's been recapped

Athlon XP 1700+ Palomino

512mb DDR266

Radeon 8500LE 128mb

Sound blaster live 5.1 Platinum

Maxtor 40gb boot disk

Seagate Baracuda IV 60gb for games

Antec easy USB

Creative labs 4224 CD burner

PC power and cooling silencer case fans

PC power and cooling Turbocool 300-ATX